Greek authorities have started removing thousands of stranded asylum-seekers from the makeshift camp of Idomeni on the Macedonian border.
More than 400 riot police have been deployed in the operation, which started at dawn but is expected to last about a week to 10 days, according to the government’s spokesman for the refugee crisis, Giorgos Kyritsis.
At least 8,400 people, mostly refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, including many children and women, live at the informal camp.
The first six buses carrying a total of 340 people left Idomeni to a new asylum processing centre near Greece’s second city of Thessaloniki. Read more…
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